In the first episode of a brand new season, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May make a pilgrimage to Detroit to drive three highly tuned muscle cars on the deserted streets of this once-great motor city. Also in this show, Jeremy drives the super-lightweight, super-hardcore, 789 horsepower McLaren Senna.

In a 2-Part Colombia Special Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May are tasked with getting Amazon some new, high quality screensaver photos depicting interesting animals. To do this, the guys go to Colombia, with Clarkson in a Jeep Wrangler, Hammond in a Chevrolet Silverado pick-up and May crammed into a tiny Fiat Panda 4x4. This show contains scenes that donkey enthusiasts may find disturbing.

In a 2-Part Colombia Special Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May are tasked with getting Amazon some new, high quality screensaver photos depicting interesting animals. To do this, the guys go to Colombia, with Clarkson in a Jeep Wrangler, Hammond in a Chevrolet Silverado pick-up and May crammed into a tiny Fiat Panda 4x4. This show contains scenes that donkey enthusiasts may find disturbing.

Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May test pick-up trucks with a series of challenges built around the many stages of life in the developing world, starting with rural subsistence and running through the toppling of the dictator, the descent into civil war, and the bit where some idiot blows up a helicopter. Clarkson has a Volkswagen Amarok, Hammond has a Ford Ranger while May is in the new Mercedes X-class. Along the way there are chases and races and quite a lot of needless gunfire until the best pick-up is decided upon by everyone except James. Also,in this show, Jeremy is at the Eboladrome to test the snorting, swollen, near-600 horsepower Jaguar XE Project 8.

Jeremy Clarkson heads to Sweden to test the new Lamborghini Urus SUV on slushy, slippery roads and in an action-packed ice race across a frozen lake against Grand Tour driver Abbie Eaton in a Porsche 911 Turbo. Back in the UK, James May pays a rare visit to the Eboladrome to try the Alpine A110, a French sports car that hopes to succeed where most French sports car fail by getting more than two people to buy it. Also in this episode, Richard Hammond profiles Scottish racing driver Jim Clark – a quiet and modest man whose achievements on track made him arguably the greatest of all time, before his life was tragically cut short.

Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May are in the vast Chinese megacity of Chongqing with some valuable consumer advice for business people across all of China; don't spend huge sums on a brand new luxury car when you could pop over to Europe, buy a second-hand executive limo and ship it home for a fraction of the cost. To prove their point, the three hosts tour the city and beyond in an old Mercedes S600, an ageing BMW 750iL and a 20-year-old Cadillac STS, encountering a door empire, a sinister camera network, a flame spitting drone and a range of in-car entertainment features along the way. Chongqing is regarded by many as the Detroit of China, and sources suggest that the boys will be filming a piece investigating the industrial development of the city's car industry. Clarkson will also be testing the Hongqi L5 Limousine – something he was very much looking forward to. Also in this show, The Grand Tour discovers an ultra-fast electric supercar called the NIO EP9 and foolishly gives the job of testing it to Richard Hammond.

In this episode, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May set out to prove that not all classic cars have become insanely expensive by finding rare and desirable machines that have yet to accelerate up the appreciation curve. With Clarkson in an Alfa Romeo GTV6, Hammond in a Fiat X1/9 and May in a Lancia Gamma Coupe, the three set off on a road trip around the top of Scotland taking in the sensational driving roads of the North Coast 500, winding their way through some of the most breathtaking scenery in the world to a soundtrack of grinding gearboxes, malfunctioning wipers and Richard Hammond complaining about how horribly cold he is. Also in this show, Jeremy is at the Eboladrome to test the new BMW M5 super saloon against the same-but-different Alpina B5.

In this special episode, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May are forced to go on an RV holiday in the southwestern United States, despite regarding such things as slow, uncomfortable and pointless. Pushed to breaking point within 24 hours, the hosts decide to take matters into their own hands by each buying a used RV which they can then modify to suit their own personal preferences before continuing their vacation across Nevada in comfort, or a near approximation of it.

In a varied episode, Richard Hammond is at the Eboladrome to drive the new Aston Martin V8 Vantage and find out if the tiny British company has made a sports car that can match the mighty Porsche 911 at last. James May is in a historical frame of mind as he looks back at the cars driven by the astronauts of the ground-breaking Apollo moon missions and takes a spine-tingling ride in Neil Armstrong's actual Corvette. Meanwhile, Jeremy Clarkson embarks on an elaborate and extremely thorough test of the Citroen C3 Aircross as he attempts to demonstrate to his sceptical colleagues that it is spacious, versatile and better than an elephant.

In this episode, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May celebrate the affordable, practical and fun wonder that is the hot hatchback. With Clarkson in the VW Polo GTI, Hammond in the Ford Fiesta ST and May in the unpronounceable Toyota Yaris GRMN, the three head to the Grand Tour rallycross track until they're told to stop mucking around and make these cars appeal to the young. Armed with stickers, slogans and social media, the three embark on a series of challenges involving fake punctures, mis-spelt rappers and a juicing disaster. Also in this show, Hammond and May are at the Eboladrome comparing two icons of the ‘80s, the Lamborghini Countach and the Ferrari Testarossa.

In this episode Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May are driving the Aston Martin DBS, the Bentley Continental GT and the BMW M850i on an epic 1000 kilometre trip from the shores of the salt water Black Sea in Georgia to the edge of the freshwater Caspian Sea in Azerbaijan. Their purpose? They'll be attempting to find the best car for someone who lives in Georgia but really craves freshwater fish. Because that makes sense, right? Along the way, they encounter strange bathing regimes, moveable borders, incredible monuments and a bladder bursting way to check track performance before arriving in the Azerbaijani capital, Baku, for a race and then some bream.

In this episode, Jeremy Clarkson tests two modernised versions of classic Lancias, one a thorough update of the Delta Integrale, the other a completely new take on the legendary Stratos. Meanwhile, James May looks back at the incredible story of the Porsche 917, from its early days as an unpromising widow maker to its evolution into one of the most successful racing cars of all time. Also in this show, Richard Hammond joins Clarkson at Stansted airport as the pair attempt to speed up the journey from check-in to security to the actual aeroplane by devising two radical takes on the idea of motorised hand luggage.

In a special episode, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May are dropped in the vast wilderness of Mongolia and told to await a delivery which turns out to be some basic rations and all the flat-packed parts they need to assemble a vehicle in which they can escape to civilisation. Navigating their way out of this epic, enormous and completely people-free terrain is going to be hard enough, especially with only a few days' worth of food and clean water to see them through, but first they've got to build an entire car, and one of the ‘engineers' is the world's most ham-fisted hammer enthusiast.

In the final episode of the series, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May present a short and informative history class on one of the bedrocks of British life; the medium-sized Ford saloon. Starting with the Cortina of the 1960s and ‘70s, the three chart the history of the car that changed British society and provided transport for millions of dads including Clarkson senior and father May though not, to his annoyance, Richard's dad. To cover the ‘80s part of this documentary, Richard takes to the track in the legendary Sierra RS Cosworth before all three hosts re-group to celebrate the Ford Mondeo and this model's unique claim to fame. Since the Mondeo seems certain to cease production without replacement in the coming years, the history lesson ends with a touching memorial service to this totem of British life.